Troubled AFL legend Wayne Carey cannot explain why guards at maximum security jail detected cocaine

Wayne Carey cannot understand why traces of cocaine were found on him in a scanning test at a maximum security jail.

Carey, 40, took the test as a condition of entry to Barwon Prison on Wednesday, when results alerted prison staff that the AFL Hall of Fame member was positive to traces of cocaine.

Carey also denies he refused to submit to a strip search, saying he was not offered the option, before leaving the jail near Geelong.

Wayne Carey was at the jail after Ronnie Burns asked him to speak to a group of indigenous prisoners who take part in a mentoring program coordinated by the former Geelong star.

“I can guarantee you I certainly haven’t taken drugs and I was more than willing to have any strip search and … wee in a cup to prove that there were no drugs," Carey told Triple M on Thursday morning.

"I would wee in a cup now, I would’ve weed in a cup yesterday.

"I was never offered to wee in a cup and was never offered to do a strip search."

Carey said that prison officers played down the positive results of the drug scan, saying that a female guard had told him that she had tested positive twice before.

"They said to me themselves that these throw false tests and negatives and positives," he said.

"We actually signed in to go in, that’s how little they took of the machine," he said.

Carey said that prison staff then refused to let the pair in, after he and Burns had sat down for a few minutes, so they left.

"An ion scanner at Barwon Prison returned an alert for drug residue on a visitor as part of regular screening procedures," a Corrections Victoria spokesman said.

"The visitor left and no further action was taken."

Ion machines were introduced in 2006, and Victoria's largest government-run prisons - Metropolitan Remand Centre, Melbourne Assessment Prison and Barwon - use the technology.

The testing unit blows puffs of air around the subject, releasing any minute residue of narcotics attached to skin, clothing or hair.

Particles are analysed in seconds and compared with samples from dozens of drug substances

Corrections sources said the scanners did not necessarily indicate someone was carrying drugs but they did show the person had come in contact with a drug, inadvertently or intentionally.

Sources say hundreds of alerts are detected monthly by the machines, and corrections authorities say that initial faults in the technology have been fixed.

In 2006, a toddler tested positive for drug residue.

The youngster was the child of a prominent Melbourne underworld figure.

It is not a crime to test positive on a jail ion scanner.

Carey has admitted since the end of his mighty on-field career that he had abused cocaine and alcohol.

He has been plagued by other problems, including a 2007 arrest in the US for breaking a wine glass in former fiancee Kate Neilson's face and attacking police.

In 2008, police used capsicum spray to subdue Carey after he assaulted officers in Port Melbourne.

By Anthony Dowsley Herald Sun

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